As
the United States works to deal with the widespread trauma caused by the
election of Donald Trump, we in the Global Justice Movement have a much better
way to spend out time and efforts: working to restructure the social order so
it doesn’t matter how bad elected officials may be, the people are in charge
and are giving the orders again . . . something that can happen only with
widespread capital ownership:
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| Everybody wins under a Capital Homestead Act |
• The big news this week is that
Donald Trump was elected as next president of the United States. yay. Our reading of the situation is that most
people did not so much vote for Trump as against Clinton. The only question remaining is what the heck
it means. Regardless which one won, the
only thing that’s going to turn things around is the Just Third Way, applied in
a Capital Homestead Act as soon as possible.
• As if to underscore the moral and
philosophical bankruptcy of American Academia, a number of colleges and
universities cancelled or postponed exams due to massive psychological trauma
endured by students shocked by the fact that “their” candidate didn’t win. This makes it even more obvious why something
along the lines of “Justice University” is essential.
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| Dr. Norman G. Kurland |
• Today the CESJ core group
attended a presentation by Dr. Norman Kurland at the Brigham Young University
Washington Seminar. The presentation was
on “the Just Third Way,” and the students were very attentive and asked a great
many insightful questions.
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| Hilaire Belloc's Servile State |
• The Perth Herald-Tribune has published “The New Servile State.” Back in 1912, Hilaire Belloc wrote of the
Servile State in protest over the Fabian socialist demand that everyone be required
to labor for wage income as the only legitimate means to make a living. Fabian George Bernard Shaw went so far as to
declare that anyone who refused to work for a living should be killed (we hope
he was exaggerating). With advancing
technology, however, the problem shifts from finding enough people to do all
the work, to finding enough work for all the people. The way to address this problem is not “job
creation,” but “ownership creation,” so that people can own the technology that
is producing goods and services with a minimum of human labor. The Perth
Herald-Tribune now has half a dozen articles from the Just Third Way
perspective from CESJ’s Director of Research.
• A number of the recent postings
on social credit and solidarism (separate topics) have been attracting a much
larger than usual readership. In
particular, yesterday’s posting on the limited role of the State under
solidarism and the Just Third Way was picked up and shared by the Saint Thomas More
Society and Australian Conservative News.
• CESJ’s latest book, Easter Witness: From Broken Dream to a New
Vision for Ireland, is available from Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble, as well as by special order from many “regular” bookstores. The book can also be ordered in bulk, which
we define as ten copies or more of the same title, at a 20% discount. A full case is twenty-six copies, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Send enquiries
to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers.
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| "I AM smiling!" |
• Here’s the usual announcement
about the Amazon Smile program,
albeit moved to the bottom of the page so you don’t get tired of seeing
it. To participate in the Amazon Smile
program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• As of this
morning, we have had visitors from 58 different countries and 46 states and
provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over the past two
months. Most visitors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada,
South Africa, and Italy. The most popular postings this past week in descending
order were “Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” “The Purpose
of Production,” “Popes are the Craziest People,” and “News from the Network,
Vol. 9, No. 42.”
Those are the happenings for this
week, at least those that we know about.
If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a
note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into
the next “issue.” If you have a short
(250-400 word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the
blog — do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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